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Originally Posted by nath
GMAFB
There's a difference between cause and responsibility.
I view responsibility as the closest moral agents to an action from happening.
So a few examples:
Plane Crash:
Cause: Jane's Dad screwing up at his job.
Cause of that: Him coming into work unfit
Cause of that: Poor choice by him + Him being distracted by his daughters death
Cause of that: Walt letting her die when he could have saved her
Cause of that: Her threatening Walt + ingesting a large amount of drugs.
Cause of that: Walt being a Dick and Jesse getting her back using
Cause of that: Walt being a dick to Jesse
Cause of that: ....
So we judge how unreasonable her dad's actions were to start. Minor misstep by him, but I think it's a bit understandable.
So we step back and we have Walt with some responsibility there. But we can't stop there. Jane and Jesse have some responsibility for their actions as well.
So we have roughly in my estimation: Her dad: 5%, Walt: 50%, Jane: 35%, Jesse: 10%.
Then we have the Ted situation:
Ted gets paralyzed
Cause: Ted running away
Cause: Thugs in his house holding him hostage
Cause: Saul coordinating it
Cause: Skyler ordering it
Cause: Ted basically stealing the money intended for taxes
Cause: Skyler being a ****** and giving it to him.
Cause: Skyler and Ted cooking the books + Skyler not wanting to get caught for the Meth stuff
Cause: Ted being a dick, Skyler having no spine here, and Walt bringing Skyler into this.
So I view the following responsibility: Ted: 35%, Skyler: 40%, Walt 20%, Saul: 5%
Walt has some say here, Skyler had many outs. Just as Ted had many outs to not get into this situation. Ted's actions don't really justify what happened to him, wheareas Skyler's actions were directly the cause of it. She was reacting to Walt, but she had numerous other steps of her own responsibility where she had other reasonable courses of action.